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The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled. ↗

— Ross Perot

#balanced #budget #controlled #debt #officials

My couch is coffee-colored. I can thank Starbucks and clumsiness for that. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#coffee #couch #funny #funny

I ended up in college by accident. Everything in my life, I ended up in by accident. I was down south in this high school doing whatever. It could just not contain me. I quit school and took off and traveled around. Nobody knew where I was I just couldn't handle it anymore. It was a big scandal, I was gone. I left. ↗

— Pauley Perrette

#anymore #around #big #college #contain

Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#meaning #meaning-of-life #pain #reality #art

As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up. ↗

— Tom Petri

#cover-up #gets #happens #most #often

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks. ↗

— Jean Rhys

#arrives #jerks #more #often #quickly

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work. ↗

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#choose #choose love #composed #forces #freud

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery. ↗

— Grant-Lee Phillips

#easier #find #i #i think #inspiration

I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions. ↗

— Taylor Phinney

#basketball #big #football #football games #games

You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement. ↗

— Mike Piazza

#baseball #depressed #get #great #happy